Cinema
A Canção de Lisboa
Cottinelli Telmo · 1933
Synopsis
Vasco, a medical student in Lisbon, lives on the money sent to him by two aunts in Trás-os-Montes, who think he is about to become a doctor. He prefers the open-air taverns, songs and Alice, the daughter of the tailor Caetano, a hard and selfish father who does not see it that way. The day he fails his exam, the aunts announce their visit, and they must be made to believe that he is practising.
Context
The film was shot with the equipment of the young Tobis Portuguesa, whose facilities were still under construction; its takings paid for a large part of them. Its director, an architect, wrote the screenplay, and it was his only film. Almada Negreiros designed its posters, and Manoel de Oliveira, then at the beginning of his career, plays Carlos, the hero's friend. The film was released at the Teatro São Luiz on 7 November 1933.
Who it is for
Black-and-white musical comedy, in Portuguese. The humour owes much to the accents, the districts and the social types of the Lisbon of the thirties.
Prizes and reception
The first sound feature made entirely in Portugal, and the first model of the Portuguese-style comedy, several titles of which remain popular.
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